"The roundtable discussion “Perspectives in classification and the Future of IFCS” was held at the last Conference under the chairmanship of Professor H. -H. Bock. In this panel discussion, I used the phrase ‘Data Science’. There was a question, “What is ‘Data Science’? ” I briefly answered it. This is the starting point of the present paper."
"This volume, Data Science, Classification, and Related Methods, contains a selection of papers presented at the Fifth Conference of the International Federation of Oassification Societies (IFCS-96), which was held in Kobe, Japan, from March 27 to 30,1996."
